the voters agreed with us back then because they fired us. in '06 and '08. we also said, you know, this country has now gone way off track. and we've got to go in search of new people that can come to the table that want to go to washington for the right reasons. and we all believe as common sense conservatives that the answer is a free enterprise optimistic conservative vision for this country. >> but this is a criticism of your own party. >> but our party lost its way. >> you are your party. >> we have to own up to the fact that the last time we were in the majority, we spent too much money. we did not ink ourselves to our principles. we have to acknowledge that if we don't want to repeat those mistakes in the future. we're trying to get men and women to come to congress, not to try to build a political career, but to advance a cause and get this country back on track. >> when you talk about the next generation of conservative leaders, you sort of implicitly talk about page turning. much has been made about the fact that not much was said about or to john